Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooty town of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia there was cheer one morning last week. The Princess Colliery, owned by Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd., had announced that it was putting on extra shifts so that the miners could earn something for Christmas. Shops broke out with holiday decorations and Sydney Mines was festive. But the cheer lasted only...
...addition to his salary (for first call on his services), Jockey Longden, like most of his colleagues, receives $10 for every race he enters (up to last week he had entered 1,091 this year), $15 extra for every race he wins and 10% of the winning purse. His income this year is about $50,000. Although some earn more than many a bank president and others earn less than plumbers, all jockeys complain that they have to spend 50% of their earnings for expenses...
Every jockey has a valet (to carry his tack and help saddle his mounts) and an agent (to get engagements for him). To his valet he must pay $2 every time he races, an extra $1 every time he wins. To his agent he must pay a similar sum plus 10% of his 10% share of the winning purse. A jockey also pays for his saddles (he usually owns two or three of varying weights), whips, boots, breeches and rubber reducing suit-if he has to keep his weight down. Next to losing their bank rolls, jockeys dread gaining weight...
...Bost fills her quota of 200 wives & their husbands, the Palm Beach Biltmore stands to do $44,800 worth of extra business in bed & board, maybe that much more in fun & liquor. Another $26,600 lurks behind invitations to "100 of the most popular debutantes" of the season. Those who join this "Fledgeling's Fling in Florida" must bring along mother or a chaperon...
Owing to an annually growing demand, culminating last year in the printing of 1000 extra copies to take care of late subscribers, the price reduction was deemed timely. The Committee also took into consideration the possibility that more copies could be sold at a lower price...